Is This How It Ends?
Is This How It Ends?
Biden’s Oops, Trump’s Scare, Dooms Day Clock, and Conspiracy Schemes
****Correction: Dooms Day Clock is at 90 SECONDS (!!!) not minutes as we stated in the podcast****
In this episode of "Is This How It Ends," we dive into the hot mess of current events with a blend of humor and critical insight. From Biden’s press conferences to Trump’s assassination attempt and the spectacle of the Republican National Convention, nothing is off-limits. Join us as we dissect political chaos, explore wild conspiracy theories, and discuss the doomsday clock. We also bring you the latest in shady astrology and our Mars housing draft, all while keeping you entertained with witty banter and spontaneous moments. Tune in for a rollercoaster ride of news, conspiracy, and laughter!
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Hey, girl hey what is going on it?
Nele:is a hot mess.
Soph:It is such a hot mess. I'm just like. You know what came to mind. There's that meme, because you know life is a whole meme Like there's a meme for everything. There's I think it's a dog, but he's like sitting there drinking coffee while everything is just burning down around him. Everything's fine, we're good.
Soph:We're good, it's okay, it's going to be fine, it's going to be fine, I don't know, I don't know, but I'm kind of excited for today's episode. It's a lot happening, breaking news. We are happy to cover it. For some of y'all, if this is your first time tuning in, it's going to be a great show. Nelly and I, we like to cover a lot of topics. We like to cover the weird. I'm into what's considered French stuff. Nell is all about it. Today is going to be politics, politics. Heavy. We're not always, it's not always like that, but, um, I think I think we gotta do it yeah, I mean, there's no way that you can, unless you're just totally living under a rock.
Nele:You know there, there's no way you can not know what's going on. So, and it's all tied together, you know. So stay woke, y'all, stay woke.
Soph:All right.
Nele:So for normal-ish that's not so normal, we're going to just kind of talk about a lot of things happened over the past couple of weeks. I'm going to try, and you know, sum it up as best as I can. But yeah, the things I do for this podcast, because I definitely sat and listened to this all but it wasn't so bad, because it was highly entertaining. So our last episode we had talked about the hot mess of a debate, what it was, but after that, after that performance which had the Dems like scrambling, joe Biden decided to do a solo press conference.
Soph:Why? Who advised him that was the right?
Nele:thing to do, girl. You know what it was like.
Soph:Okay, you know Mariah Carey right, you know Mariah Carey.
Nele:You know one of the pop best singers in the world.
Nele:But, there was a point in time where you didn't know if she she was gonna hit that note or not. And so, like you know the song, you know the high notes coming, so you're just like, and then when it does happen, you have a sigh of relief. You know, that's what it was like watching a joe biden speech, because you're just waiting for, you just want him to get through it, but at the same time just kind of like hold your breath, you don't know what's gonna happen. You know it's like secondhand embarrassment, like yeah, but girl, it already started off a hot mess, because I think I text you. So, um july 11th, um biden gave his first solo press conference after his debate with don Trump and in like the first let me see 10, 15 minutes he called Kamala Harris, donald Trump. I said, oh, oh, this is what we're doing.
Soph:This is what we're doing.
Nele:So, yeah, the rest of it was okay. I will say that he sounded a little bit stronger than he did in the debate. Um, but yeah, that was that press conference. Um, now I'm going to move on to July 13th, which was the Trump assassination attempt. Now, it's important to remember these dates because it's all like a lot of this stuff happened like a short span of time, like back to back to back. So many updates, right? So, um july 13th, um former president donald trump um survived an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in butler, pennsylvania. Um. The attacker, thomas matthew crooks, 20 years, fired eight rounds with an AR-15 style rifle from a nearby rooftop, striking Trump in the right ear and killing one audience member while critically injuring two others. The US Secret Service counter sniper team killed Crooks on the scene and Trump was quickly escorted off the stage. Trump was quickly escorted off the stage and taken to the hospital where he was treated and later released in stable condition.
Nele:So I'm going to say this I have a Caucasian job. And so, sophie, you have a Caucasian job too. You're not going to say it, I'm going to say it for you. Okay, and Sophie, you have a Caucasian job too. You're not going to say it. I'm going to say it for you, okay, and so I really don't want to say my true feelings about this, but, either way, I'm glad Trump is okay, you know? Just, y'all just look at the optics, okay, just look at the poses and the pictures. Just take from what you will, yeah, I'll say that right. So in terms of the shooter, right Crooks. He had no criminal record and he is actually a registered Republican and he donated $15 to a liberal campaign group called Act Blue in 2021. And that's it really.
Soph:What are the conspiracies about? Like, I just want to touch on the conspiracy ones of all of this.
Nele:Right, okay, this is not our opinion. This is what they're just saying. In these East streets, some people are questioning the authenticity of the assassination attempt. Did I say that in a PC way? So that's a little PC way, right? Yeah, right, they are just in terms of how it happened, like he fell and then he got up and he had his fist in the air and as blood was dripping down his ear, but the Secret Service was the way they were kind of just staged around him, the flag in the background and the blue sky. Several photo ops, definitely to change the narrative about Donald Trump. We don't want to paint him as someone who incites insurrection. He's a victim.
Nele:And so some people think that you know this was done to change his image.
Soph:this was done to change his image. Yeah, that is what they're saying. You know it's. Was this staged? Or, like whodunit, there's a talk that this might have been, this might have been MKUltra.
Nele:Have you heard of MKUltra Janelle? I've heard of it, but I can't tell you exactly what it was.
Soph:So it's a secret program and this is not a conspiracy theory, it is an actual conspiracy, right.
Nele:So let's prove it.
Soph:It's a secret program run by the CIA during the 1950s and 60s that aimed to develop mind control techniques. This program was notorious for its unethical and often illegal experiments on human subjects without their consent. The CIA conducted these experiments in an attempt to discover ways to manipulate mental states and alter brain functions, potentially for use in espionage and interrogation. So there are people that were saying, like this, this guy, right, like he's a 20 year old, like he has, like no presence on social media. He had that one video that he did for Black Rock, which they or Blackstone and they pulled that quick, right, like, and there's from the internet of that one video. Yes, he has some ties to it, but there's just, there's just really nothing about him, even the videos.
Soph:There's one picture circulating from four years ago and people are saying maybe he was MKUltra, ultimately was disbanded. Right, because the CIA no longer does the legal shit. They're clean and proper now, clean and proper. But yeah, that's everything I read. I love the conspiracy aspect, so I had to add that in there. Maybe he was mind-controlled. The thing is someone was pulling the strings, but was it the Republicans to give this image of Trump? Because there's been other governments or other candidates in other countries that have done similar things. There was one candidate I don't remember the country who was stabbed right, and because of that his popularity increased a little bit. So I don't know, but either way there's no reason to resort to that. Also, it was the second time. That was his second assassination attempt, by the way.
Nele:Wow, yeah, moving on from that, so that was the 13th of July. Then, from July 15th to the 18th was the Republican National Convention that was held in Milwaukee, wisconsin. Now, look y'all, I have to draw the line somewhere. I was going to sit there and watch the MAGA Fest on my weekend. However, I did note some things and I did tune in to the last day. So, on July 15th, trump announced his running mate for vice president would be JD Vance. So let me give y'all just a little bit about JD Vance. So he's a Republican who began his political career when he was elected in the US Senate for Ohio in 2022. Do you hear that, soph? 2022. 2022.
Soph:Okay.
Nele:It's 2024. So he's had just like two years experience. Okay, Just keep that in mind. Before entering politics, Vance was a lawyer, venture capitalist venture capitalist, mind you and an author of a bestselling memoir called Hillbilly Elegy, which details his upbringing in a working class family in Ohio, and it was actually adopted into a Netflix movie. Maybe I should check it out Out of curiosity, but I don't want to give him any streams. No, I don't want to do that. All right. So his political views align with conservative and right-wing populist ideologies. He opposes abortion, same-sex marriage, gun control and transgender health care for minors. Apparently, he dislikes childless women that own cats. Let me just give you the quote from this man. This is a while ago.
Soph:Is this a?
Nele:real thing. It's a real thing. So this is the quote. I'm sorry. Okay, go ahead. We are effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too, and it's just a basic fact. They want to make the rest of the country miserable too, and it's just a basic fact. If you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg I think I said that right AOC and the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does that make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?
Soph:How many women actually hold positions of power in the government compared to. It's like if you want to be a Republican, it's like you need to be a piece of shit Like here are your talking points Go forth and conquer, Like this man. So one thing you didn't mention was that he's against unions.
Nele:Right no-transcript.
Soph:He acknowledged the benefits that that union, that stable job, brought to his family. But it's kind of like and that's the thing with Republicans, right, their whole stance is got mine F you. That should be. Their whole stance is got mine F you. That should be their slogan. Yeah, got mine F you. Like I hold myself by the bootstraps with my grandfather's $100,000 loan. You know that I never had to pay back. You could do the fucking same, like that should be their slogan. It's just so insane to me when you think about this man's upbringing and background and the importance of the union. I'm not saying the unions are not flawed, but workers need protection. Yeah, because these businesses all they care about is their bottom line. Like they're firing people left and right and this is in the midst of record profits. And this is in the midst of record profits. Yep, you know record profits. But we don't need you because our CEO needs, like that, $23 billion for I don't know what the 10th house Like, whatever. I'm sorry, rant over.
Nele:No, but just why do childless women who own felines? Why do we keep getting these strays? Okay, I'm tired. I'm sitting here minding my business, paying my taxes. I don't bother anybody.
Soph:Why do I keep getting these strays? Like what power do you have? Like swaying any sort of policy or any of us? Like who are the people behind this? It's not.
Nele:This is I know it's like you are punishing women who read the room. In terms of our economy, in terms of the state of relationships today, no one's trying to be a single parent in this economy. No one's trying to do it. Even if you have help, even if you have a spouse, it's expensive. No one is trying to do it. Even if you have help, even if you have a spouse, it's expensive. No one is trying to do it. That's what's happening.
Soph:And if you're a Black woman, you're not trying to risk your life to give birth. No, and again, the percentage of women who actually hold positions of power. And then, when you look at research and what it tells you about these women who get into position of power, they're more in line with their male counterparts, right? Because they don't-.
Nele:Definitely. Look how many women voted for Trump. White women that voted for Trump.
Soph:Right, I've worked for women CEOs. They're no different from their male counterparts. But whatever, these people hold all the power, but somehow they're trying to convince us that, no, it's not us, it's the women, it's the gays, it's blacks, it's the browns, it's like no, no.
Nele:So that is who. If you think Project 2025 is not happening when you have this lined up people like jd vance to run the country, then you're just being willfully obtuse, yeah, um. So back to um maga fest, aka the republican national convention. Um, on the last day, there were notable speakers such as um Rose and Hulk Hogan. Now let me tell you something. Okay, hulk Hogan is not like us. I was about to say I was very conflicted because I forgot he was a racist. First of all, hulk Hogan looked really good. Racism must moisturize the skin. It must quench its thirst. He looked good. I was like good, hulk Hogan. He's like 70. And I remember my grandma used to watch wrestling all the time and see Hulk Hogan, macho man, randy Savage, andre the Giant. I'm definitely telling my age, but you know. So he looked good, but he's a total racist.
Soph:So that's true, it's like why Trump looked good but he's a total racist. So that's like my Trump, like what he called them.
Nele:Trump bites, trump bites. The Trump bites are on the wall, just like ripping off his shirt and stuff.
Soph:St Reality girl.
Nele:Republicans are so ghetto they are waiting for, like Slap it to Slim Jim, like pop up. They're just so ghetto. They are waiting for like Slap it to Slim Jim, like pop up. They're just so ghetto Like you can never. You can never. Just so uncouth, anyway. And then Amber Rose and her dumb ass was up there too. I lost brain cells listening to her. She's awful.
Nele:Um, yeah, so the highlight or maybe the low light of uh the night was trump's uh speech for accepting the nomination. Um, now here's where guys, I I was in and then I tapped out after a while. Um, I think I looked up mole rats or something as I was watching this, because it just got so boring. So he gave a 93 minute long speech. It's the longest in the history of the convention. But then he also gave the second longest speech, so he beat his own record by 20 minutes. He recounted the assassination attempt. He beat his own record by 20 minutes. He recounted the assassination attempt. He said this will be the first and last time he talks about it. But we know that will not be the truth. He's an old man.
Nele:That will not be the truth. He brought up Hannibal Lecter several times. I'm not sure what his obsession with that was. What else? He also talked about Kim Jong-un, who said that he wants him back, that he misses him. So I guess him and Kim Jong-un are BFFs. Yeah, he didn't talk anything about policy really Nothing important. It was a lot of rambling. Even after a while people started to leave because they were over it. One thing that was interesting in the audience I posted on Instagram, where you know how he has his bandage, his little pillow. Someone said it was a maxi pad. This woman had a maxi pad on her ear too, with the hat on.
Nele:I was like I saw just one, but I think there was other people that had it too and I was like like what is this? But you know what a friend of mine responded and said, you know, like back in the day when Nelly used to have the band-aid under his eye and we walk around like this, so this is the equivalent. I was like right, right.
Soph:I mean, like these are adults, though, like as kids we did that because we were too dumb to know any better. We're like oh, we're going to put cups in our eyebrows. We're going to-.
Nele:Yeah, I was like sure we just needed a band-aid, not this big old piece of paper there. It's just very odd. Yeah, so that was really it for the Republican National Convention. I think the next one is a few weeks from now for the Democrats. And so now on, to kind of like Biden and the Dems, breaking news. Breaking news, because I already had in my notes, my notes. I was talking about the infighting and how they want him to step down. But we don't know. But officially, today he's chosen to drop out of the race and Kamala is running.
Nele:Woo, so y'all, in celebration, I wrote a little rap, I wrote a little song of the hip-hop. I don't know how this is going to go, because I wrote a little rap, I wrote a little song of the hip hop. I don't know how this is going to go because I'm a little, you know, but it's from the point of view of Biden. I'm Joe Biden. It's only like two lines. All right, first, can you hear this? So can you hear it? All right, there we go, jay Biden here. Thought that was over, let's go. It's 7 pm, friday. It's 95 degrees. Guess who's going to run? It's Kamala and not me. No, no, i'm't done yet.
Soph:Do you want to start over?
Nele:I'm starting.
Soph:Alright, we're going to do this A little louder, a little louder. I like the beat. I like the beat. Come on, let's go.
Nele:I'm not going to look at you, because you're going to look at you, you're going to make me laugh. Do this again, y'all.
Soph:Can you twerk to this? Is this a twerkable song?
Nele:Yes, it is. It's a whole bunch of twerking. Girl, I'm going to make this go viral. Go ahead, Jay Biden. In the building the pubs thought this was over. It's just beginning, son. It's 7 pm Friday. It's 95 degrees. Guess who's gonna run. It's Kamala and not me. Doing it for the Dems? Hey. Doing it for the country? Hey, do it for the world, because Kamala is your girl.
Soph:Bow, bow, bow, bow bow, bow.
Nele:JD V got no chance. What?
Soph:Girl, we're gonna do that again offline and we gonna upload it and it's gonna go viral. This is how is this how it ends? Does it all right? I love it.
Nele:I love it yes, y'all, who knows, you know? So we may be have to take this on the road to a little rap album.
Soph:We about to go viral, girl we about to. I need to go with my bars all right, oh my God.
Nele:No, you got some bars, son. Hey, i'ma think about it. I'ma think about it. Yeah, I love it. Yeah, all right y'all. So that's it for Normalish Whew that's it.
Soph:And, yeah, I think normal-ish, that's it. Yeah, I think I normally after Janelle talks about her normal-ish, which there was nothing normal about what she just said at all we're burning down, the US is burning the F down and I don't know who's in control.
Soph:All right, I don't know who's in control, all right, I don't know who's in control of this matrix or of this simulation. I think you know I mentioned this before. The makers of it forgot about us and they just sort of leave us to our own vices. But anywho, janelle, I thought usually the main topic we would discuss a little later, but because of everything that's going on, I thought we would just move it up. I wanted to talk about the doomsday clock. Have you heard of the doomsday clock?
Nele:No, not really.
Soph:Okay. It sounds made up, but it's a thing For those of you who are blissfully unaware. Um, this is not a clock you can buy at target.
Nele:Oh, they'd be kind of like yeah, have a june say clock, I'm sure huh look, I'm just saying that to cut you off, but once more people know about it, there'll be a way to market it, I know right june say clock right june, say clock for your bedside.
Soph:You know, I'm sure Fendi or Prada One of those Brands will figure it out. So it's a symbolic Clock. It was created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It's a group of people Back in 1947. This is just all their. They're just doomsday clock and it's supposed to show us how close we are to global disaster, or, as they call it, midnight, like once it's midnight. Spades of black. We're effed. That's kind of good, especially later on.
Soph:And but then came the 1950s and in the US, and Soviet Union decided to play a game of who could build a bigger bomb. They both won, right, they both did. They're still, they're still moving towards that goal. During that time, the clock ticked toward two minutes to midnight. It was, it was. It was a long time. And now, 1991, it moved to 17 minutes to midnight after the end of the Cold War, which was good, right, people are feeling more optimistic. So we're a little further away. 2018, it moved to two minutes to midnight, and that was largely due to nuclear risks and climate change. And today, the last time I checked, we are at 90 minutes to midnight, which is pretty close, okay, and the clock was originally designed to reflect the threat of nuclear war. As I mentioned earlier, it was all about nuclear war because we're in this arms race, we're just building, we just dropped the atomic bomb. It's just crazy. But in 2024, they've had to change that in recent years.
Soph:So this talk isn't just about this anymore, it's about everything this Bulletin of Atomic Sciences. They've diversified their portfolio by a lot. Now their portfolio of doom includes climate change, pandemics, rogue AI, which you know that's I'm all about that. So anything that could be used to wipe us out is fair game. I think rogue AI should be like number one. So it's a doomsday buffet, like I don't want to eat at it, but it's there for you to partake. Buffet. I don't want to eat at it, but it's there for you to partake.
Soph:And it's updated annually by this bulletin of whatever Atomic Sciences, in consultation with a board of sponsors including 13 Nobel laureates. I assume they sit around a table or maybe a Zoom call. Today is the day they freak us out. Today is the day they tell us adios. Someone says, hey, the Arctic is a swimming pool, and another person is like maybe we should move it 10 seconds or 15 seconds, I don't know. Americans will say, well, our options are either Biden or Trump, although that's changed, since that moves it all the way. Girl Boom. It went around or either Biden or Trump, although that's changed, since that moves it all the way, girl, boom, boom.
Nele:It's midnight, y'all Boom. It went around and back again, counterclockwise, clockwise.
Soph:Boom. I mean it feels like it. Although this thing is supposedly it's scientific, I don't know. I think it's all. But as of today, again it's at a cozy 90 minutes. And let's look at the past couple of years, right, nuclear risks, which has I mean it's worse than it was during the Cold War.
Soph:I think right now we're at another level and especially when it comes to the military complex, we're using ai. You know, like I use chat, gpt to help me understand shit. I mean, they're using machine learning and artificial intelligence on a whole nother level. Wherever we were at today, just know that the military complex is like 3 000 steps ahead of of us. So that's huge. And for that point, like, remember, like, when was the internet created? Was it the 80s? Whenever it was created, they had some of those functions way before that GPS, before it became like like something for the regular people. They had that, they definitely had that. There were so many things that they created, right, that we're now using as regular people, years later, decades later.
Soph:But anywho, climate change, which you know the Republicans don't want to acknowledge as an actual thing, which is why they're trying to get rid of scientists who are trying to talk about this, but that's one of the things that's impacting the clock Again technology, technological disruptions, ai it's getting so advanced. It's only a matter of time before your toaster becomes self-aware and Alexa is going to tell you to figure out whether you're self-righteous. I'm like you do that shit yourself, okay, um, so it's, it's a lot, and I think you know we covered. I talked about it briefly. Uh, when it comes to artificial intelligence, when it comes to these chat boxes and chat gbt and all the things that go into it, there are, well, there's a general understanding of the people who are programming this. There's a lot that they just don't know. There's a lot that they will admit that we just kind of don't know. But it's an AI race, right? Just like the arms race. This is like an AI race.
Soph:People want to be like how can we get to the next step before our other folks so that we can make the most money? And it all comes down to who can make the most money, right, because you're trying to monetize this thing, right? So, and then you know, when it comes to that, you think about deep fakes. There are companies there and this has always been the case where, if you believe in a theory, whether it's true or not, you can pay companies to just flood the internet with articles supporting that theory, right by your own science. It's big tobacco did it all the time, right like big tobacco had their own scientists who created articles in the past saying that tobacco is not bad for you. Uh, that it's just so. This clock is telling. So this. Its main point is to tell us something is really freaking like, something is wrong, something is seriously wrong. But I mean, no one's really taking it seriously. I think we're just going about our business, joking about what a Black job is versus a white job.
Nele:We have our distractions, so many, you know so so that we cannot. If we fully understood what was going on, it'd be pure pandemonium. So we have to be subdued with all these things that don't matter it would be. The country's falling apart.
Soph:Yeah, there's an episode of. So there's this guy that I like to watch and I've talked about him before called the Y Files. He's not a conspiracy guy but he likes to cover conspiracies and there's a lot he talks about. That is kind of like what, but he had an episode on I'm going to pull it up right now. He had an episode of the dark side of DARPA, which is looking at the human cost of just our technological advances, and it's pretty scary because he goes into AI and what AI can do. Right, like you see, those machine dogs, it's just like enhancing soldiers with tech, that's pretty much like Iron man Bionic soldiers walking around here.
Nele:Is that what's going to happen? Or like infused with some AI, like technology, like vetted in the skin girl? That's what.
Soph:I'm talking about. They're working towards it. There's a lot they're working towards that is. It's really scary, right? I think science can be a tool for good, ai can be a tool for good, but money trumps good.
Nele:Right. It's in the hands of the wrongumps. Good, in the hands of the wrong people, always in the hands of the wrong people. They have access to it. That's why they want to be in certain positions so that they have easier access to these things. They're the first ones to have these things. They know what's ahead. That's why some people are building these bunkers and all these things that we talked about, because they're in the circles that know what's up. That's us regular folk. We don't. By the time we get the news, it's already old news.
Soph:Yeah, it is. It is new news. I'm sorry I'm just on this toilet here because I'm just. Every time something goes to shit, you bite me.
Nele:I don Well, maybe that's why, because it's you know, you just said it.
Soph:Look at that, is that?
Nele:an entourage yourself. Yes, when it all goes to shit, we get toilet paper. Sousa should be on a t-shirt, hey.
Soph:In conclusion, this place is the freaking ghetto. The doomsday clock is at 90 seconds. That is a minuteday clock is at 90 seconds. That is a minute and 30 seconds. That is super close y'all. That is the closest it's been.
Nele:All right, I'm reading shenanigans.
Soph:I'm packing my shit, girl. I'm packing my shit, I'm ready.
Nele:Me and the cat. We ready, we ready.
Soph:Who you got? Who's going to Mars?
Nele:All right, y'all. So now on to the Mars housing draft, because, as you can see, earth is the ghetto Ghetto, the ghetto Ghetto, and so We'll get a clip of that.
Soph:Bobby Pratt. Bobby Pratt about my age.
Nele:So Earth is Ghetto as Hell, and so each episode we choose three people Soph and I all together to enter into Mars, and we conducted like the New York Housing Lottery, and so each episode I bring three people, soph brings three people to enter into Mars, and we conducted like the New York housing lottery, and so each episode I bring three people, soph brings three people, and then we decide out of the six which three are coming, and then we also have a section where people are banned. They cannot visit nowhere they're coming. All right, so do you want to go first? So, for I went first last time, you can go first this time. Okay, so I chose Dr Elia Overby.
Nele:She's a woman. She's an assistant professor of bioastronautics at the University of Austin, texas. Before joining UATX, she was a research associate at Weill Cornell Medicine, where she focused on genomic changes in astronauts during space flight. Her recent projects include genomic changes in astronauts from SpaceX Inspiration4 mission and working on data analysis and sample collection for the Axiom 2 and Polaris Dawn missions. Yeah, so basically she studies genetics and astronauts and I guess, like the almost like a doctor of astronauts, that's how space affects them. So I think that'd be good. That would be good, because we'll be in space and we need. Maybe space changes our bodies and she would be studying them, so that's one person.
Nele:The next person is Masha Davis, mphrdn another lady. She's a nationally recognized registered dietitian, nutrition and humanitarian. She's the founder of Nomadista Nutrition, a private nutrition and humanitarian practice based in Los Angeles. She uses evidence-based approach and nutrigenomics to help her clients optimize their health, manage chronic conditions and achieve a healthy weight. And she has worked internationally, spending five years in Africa on programs for the treatment and prevention of malnutrition in women and children. We need to learn how to eat to heal and take care of ourselves in Mars. And the last person this is a wild card Jack Kornfield. He's a well-known author and teacher in the field of mindfulness, meditation and buddhist psychology, extensively in thailand and india with renowned meditation masters, and has played a key role in bringing mindfulness to the west you don't need some healing girl, you need some healing, some food, like some principles, because we're going to be peaceful on Mars.
Nele:We are Okay. Now do you want me to say who I have banned, or you want to wait till let's do it at the end? Okay, all right. So those are my three people.
Soph:All right, so my folks are.
Nele:Pull it up.
Soph:I do have. So I have an anthropologist, Felipe de Scola. He's a French anthropologist known for his work on the anthropology of nature and his studies of indigenous societies in the Amazon. He challenges Western economies between nature and culture. His impact he has had a significant impact on anthropological theory, particularly in rethinking the ways in which different cultures perceive and interact with the natural world. His contributions have led to a deeper understanding of the diversity of human nature relationships. So I think that's something I don't know if there's going to be. Well, as far as we know, there's no one on Mars, but who knows, Maybe there might be and we just don't know it yet. So he might be helpful in sort of helping us pave the way and making sure we're a peaceful people and we're not coming in there like Americans, like this is mine.
Nele:Right, all of this.
Soph:Wild. Yes, we do need some technology, so I taught, and we're probably going to have to travel the light right. I talked in the past about the wonders of 3D printing Like this, this thing, this is magic.
Nele:I don't care what anyone tells me, it is and I've seen we have 3D printing machines where I work and it's pretty cool.
Soph:Right and I told you the role it played in trying to trap, trap, dark matter Like that's magic.
Soph:I'm sorry, science is like is like magic it is magic use it to create tools, prosthetic legs, um, clothing, footwear and even like construction we might need to build. So it's pretty amazing and it's um and it's. It's not something super bulky maybe it might be, but you know. So brie pettis is co-founder of MakerBot Industries. I think you might have heard of MakerBot I see it everywhere One of the most well-known companies in the consumer 3D printing space.
Soph:Makerbot's products have played a significant role in making 3D printing technology accessible to a broader audience. So you know, they're not just about keeping it to themselves and like these mega corporations, but like how can the regular people use it? Under his leadership, makerbots released several iterations of their replicator 3D printers, which are among the first affordable 3D printers for hobbyists, educators and small businesses. That's really cool for creating a lot of things that we may need. Yeah, we can't again, we're not. We're not going to carry a lot of stuff, hopefully. But for this to work, we need energy. Yeah, right, we need energy that we definitely cannot carry with us or we might be able to carry something, so we need some sort of renewal energy. We need to find a way to power a lot of this stuff.
Soph:So William Kemkwamba is a Malawian innovator, engineer and author. He gained international recognition for building a wind turbine from scrap materials to power electrical appliances in his family's house in Malawi. The story is chronicled in his memoir the Boy who Harnessed the Wind, which was also adapted into a film. He worked on projects related to renewable energy and sustainable development. I think the theme for this is going to be renewable and sustainable. In whatever we do. We can't just take and take and not give back. We're going to be peaceful, but also we're not going to exploit our resources. We're going to find ways for whatever we take, we have to give back to. Yes, we have to take care of our new planet. It's going to be, it's going to be brand new. It's going to be like we're going to do things differently.
Nele:You know, with you know are we going to have like a hoa for mars, like girl I hateAs I have one now.
Soph:Oh my God, I hate HOAs. The people who run HOAs. If you're ever on Facebook and listen to them, they're psychos.
Nele:Yeah, I think you have to be in order to like the power trip on them is just insane.
Soph:but whatever, linda calm down.
Nele:You get mad about the fencing. It's not space, right, calm down, linda. We're all Karen, every last one of space. Right, calm down, linda. We're all Karen, every last one of them are Karen. Calm down, Linda.
Soph:Linda.
Nele:Linda does the most. Linda does the most, yes.
Soph:So those are my people. So I have tech, I have electricity, we need electricity. I'm all about living on the earth and just all of that crunchy shit, but I need some light. I need to see what's out there. Okay, I need to boil water to make some. I don't know whatever I'm going to make All right.
Nele:I'm willing to forego the nutritionist and the mindfulness meditation person. I want mindfulness like I just we already have a doctor, I think, so we wouldn't need it what kind of doctor are they like?
Soph:I want a doctor that's not all traditional, although I think we do have doctors that are not traditional. Here are some films.
Nele:I think so. Okay, so, dr Elia, we can. So then for me, dr Elia will be, maybe another time, another round, and the nutritionist as well. So we're going to keep the mindfulness meditation guy. Okay, okay, and the nutritionist as well. So we're going to keep the mindfulness meditation guy. That means one of yours we have to let go.
Soph:I would get rid of. I like the yes, the anthropologist but he's also French.
Nele:He's also a man, and you know France's history with colonization, Although I'm not saying he's that.
Soph:but so the Francis are colonizers, that's what you say in France, fosfet Colonizer, exactly. And then what we also have to think about. Right, he's coming from the perspective of Earth, so he's going to have all that bias coming into his work, and maybe there are going to be people there, maybe they have their own, I don't know. But whatever, I'll get rid of him. He could be on like. He could write some research papers and send it to us. We could put him on the wait list.
Nele:Okay, so we have the 3D print. I'm actually writing this down, so on my notes, so that we can have some kind of organized document. Okay, so we have the Buddhist guy, the 3D printer and the energy person, right?
Soph:Yes, I kind of you know I'm not an AC person, but if it's cold I want some deep.
Nele:I'm an AC person. Okay, oh, crank it up. Crank it up, ac in the fan Like 74.
Soph:Oh, I hate people. It up AC in the fan, it's like 74. Oh, I hate people like you. I hate the noise that it makes. I hate everything about fans.
Nele:Everyone hates me. Okay, wait, you didn't share a room with me in Miami, did you? I did not. I was with mom. I definitely came in drunk and I was like, oh, I ate someone's sandwich. And then I turned the thermostat all the way down because I like it Cool. I was like why is it so cold in here and where is my sandwich?
Soph:Sorry to that sandwich, oh my.
Nele:God, no, we did not share a room. So no, sorry to that sandwich. Sandwich, all right. So who's banned? Uh?
Soph:who is banned. Um, I have so much hate. We shouldn't hate people because it shows they have power over you, but I don't care. I have so much hate for marjorie taylor green, so she's an awful human being like she is awful with her bleach blonde, bad built butch body I know you saw that like blonde, bad built butch, butch, butch body like no common decency, no respect she is awful, she's awful.
Nele:Awful human being. She's not from anywhere even near our orbit.
Soph:She has several lifetime bans. She has like infinity lifetime bans. Yes, there's. I don't care if she redeems herself In the void, in the void.
Nele:In the abyss. Yes, yes, that's where she needs to go. I totally agree with this ban on you. Is that a label? So who? I'm banning Drake? Yes, yes, he's banned.
Soph:He's been really quiet lately.
Nele:Yeah, I read somewhere that he's trying to buy Tupac's car. What's wrong with this man? Why? Because he's petty. See, this is why you need to follow the beef. So, if we're going to sit down and we're going to listen to it song by song, so you understand the pettiness of these middle-aged men. But yeah, that's what I read.
Soph:I don't know.
Nele:Maybe he's plotting for a comeback. Maybe he's still licking his wounds from the lyrical ass whooping that he's got. He can't escape the song calling him a pedophile. So, Girl, I could pay for my piece, right I?
Soph:don't know, but yeah, so he's banned from everything for my piece, right?
Nele:I don't know. Yeah, so he's banned from everything.
Soph:Okay, yeah, all right, let's move on Conspiracy.
Nele:Oh, my favorite one Conspiracy, my favorite segment y' one Conspiracy, my favorite segment y'all.
Soph:So for this one, I'm going to name three and you're going to say which one is the conspiracy theory. Okay. So number one researchers achieve mind control using light. Next one the media is controlled by the CIA. And the third one, this is about the movie Frozen. Let it go. The Disney movie Frozen was made to distract people from searching about Walt Disney's rumored cryogenic preservation. So which one girl?
Nele:The last one is a conspiracy theory.
Soph:It is, so we'll go to these. So researchers achieve mind control using light. Scientists have found ways to control the minds of mice using light. They do this by shining blue light on certain brain cells that have been specifically prepared to react to the light. This allows the scientists to turn certain emotions and behaviors on and off. For example, they can make a mouse forget a fear it had been trained to remember by controlling the brain cells responsible for that memory. This is freaking scary, right? Especially when we think about what I mentioned early about MKUltra and what they were doing with people, right? So while this is right now, it's just for mice. We can imagine this. So you know.
Nele:No, I definitely in terms of light, just lighting. If you think about when they torture prisoners, right, they make sure they're shrouded in darkness and being in darkness for long periods of time like it's really detrimental to your psyche as well, and there's definitely um even some psychological practices that use light um to assist alleviating mental health issues so it's definitely, um, yeah, even, even, you know, with your health, like epilepsy and flashing lights and all these things, definitely, yeah, no, that's real.
Soph:Yeah, but now they can control it. Yeah. So media control by the CIA? Apparently not currently, but Operation Mockingbird Look at that, even the names of it.
Soph:Mockingbird was a covert program initiated by the CIA during the Cold War era, aimed at influencing and controlling the media. It began in the late 1940s and extended through the 70s. The primary goal was to use American foreign journalists as spies and propagandists to promote the CIA's agendas and gather intelligence. The CIA recruited prominent journalists from major US news orgs such as the New York Times, time Magazine and CBS. The program aimed to influence public opinion and political discourse by controlling the flow of information discourse by controlling the flow of information. And Operation Mockingbird extended beyond the US to CIA's international journalists and media outlets to influence global public opinion and promote US foreign policy objectives. And this program came to light in the 70s through the investigations by the Church Committee, a Senate committee that looked into intelligence activities. So they say this ended. I fully don't believe it, like I still think our media is influenced by a lot of shit. That we Definitely Right. And it's owned by like five major corporations. You have Disney, you have Paramount, viacom. Viacom is under something else.
Soph:But, it's just. I had the names too and I just forgot. But yeah, it's really just five major corporations. Fox is one of them, but yeah, it's really five major corporations. And we all know like people with money are in bed with our politicians and they make our laws and they lobby and they are trying to consolidate power and make sure that they retain their power. So, but yeah, and then the frozen one, I've never seen that movie you've never seen it.
Soph:Well, um, I have a bell is 13 now, but when she was around four or five, that's all we watched and that's all we said. We had the dress that had a lot of glitter on it that just messed up my house, but it was fine. It was fine. So there's been a but. You've heard the rumor that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen right. So this was after his death in 1966, in the hope that he could be revived in the future. This rumor, despite being debunked multiple times, has persisted over the years. So his family said nope, he was cremated and all of that. But this is a thing right. When you preservation, there are things that they're doing in terms of. That's a discussion for another time when we talk about reviving the dead.
Nele:Ooh, ooh, ooh Now.
Soph:Yeah, so the thing is. So, given the massive success of Frozen, the theory posits that Disney effectively overshadowed the cryogenic rumor with the film's widespread popularity, songs and merchandise, thus burying the association of Disney and Frozen in different contexts. So if you search for Frozen or Disney like, you just get a flood of hits for the movie and not this guy. So I don't know. Cool, I personally think it's true, but that's just me.
Nele:Oh, that was a good one. I actually guessed it right this time. You did Good job. All right, y'all. So now it's time for Shady Astrology. Why getting your Zodiac's ass Now? Technically, it's time for Shady astrology. Why getting your zodiac's ass Now? Technically, it's not Leo season yet, but by the time we post it, it will be, so I'm just going to go off of that. Alright, no shade. So y'all, we're in the presence of Lil Lion Right here. Okay, a couple or a few of our friends are Leos, are you the only non-Leo.
Soph:You and Shelly are the non-Leos. What is Shelly?
Nele:Shelly is April I think Shelly is an Aries. Yeah, I'm a goat surrounded by. I'm a sea goat surrounded by Lions. So just because you hear, don't mean I'm not Going to get in your zodiac's ass, okay.
Soph:We're still the best, I don't care what you say.
Nele:Okay, see, it's already starting. It's already starting, okay, alright. So Leo season is from July 23rd to August 22nd. The symbol is the lion, wow, right. And a notable celebs Barack Obama, now looky here, girl. Now Michelle is a Capricorn, so in our podcast relationship, are you the Barack and I'm the michelle, I guess. So, girl, um, it's jennifer lopez, um, whitney houston, arnold schwarzenegger, jason momoa. Let me tell you something, girl, jason momoa, I saw something on instagram where they showed pictures of him throughout the years and when I tell you, when he was like really young, I think he might have been on an episode of Baywatch. He's a beautiful man. Like I couldn't even like look at the image straight ahead. He was just so beautiful. But then, as he got older, he just looked more unbathed. He does look unbathed, but he's still very attractive. He's still very attractive man. You know, he has a lot of hair, just like your lions, all that hair.
Soph:I do want some soap and like a wash.
Nele:Yeah, just scrub and make sure you get the legs, because sometimes melanin deficient people they talk about not washing their legs, but you know there was a whole debate about that. How you gonna debate that anyway? Uh, who else? Kylie jenner, um and uh, madonna I do like him, john the presence of some good company, you know.
Nele:So let's talk about the good things about you guys, all the good things you can say, if this is true or not, because we're in the presence of a Leo. So you're natural leaders, right? You have generous hearts, that's very true, and you're loyal beyond reason. Is that true, soph?
Soph:I have a reason to my loyalty. Okay, I am a jealous friend.
Nele:You are a jealous friend, but you've gotten better at that, so you have. You have more outside friends, I think, than I do now. So, yeah, but you definitely were the jealous friend.
Soph:Not in terms of what people have, but just like who's that other?
Nele:friend Like who? How do you know other people? Why do you know other people Like why am I?
Soph:not your only friend.
Nele:Yeah, that's so iconic. No, that's not me.
Soph:Like who that All?
Nele:right your optimistic sunshine.
Soph:I'm more of a no, I'm more of a Debbie Downer. Like. I'm more of a no, I'm more of a Debbie Downer. I'm like, oh my god, it's all one thing, dolores is optimistic.
Nele:Dolores is optimistic. Dolores is optimistic, yeah so that goes Cynthia's optimistic, I'm the opposite.
Soph:I'm like, oh no, this is one of shit.
Nele:I think you have a lot of earth in your chart for some reason. I feel like maybe, yeah, I think you do. I think this virgo has to be in your chart somewhere. I think all right, infectious enthusiasm, like when you guys love something, you really love it, and kind of everyone's in the mood um, charismatic performers. Right, look at the people that I named whoa, you know whitney houston, so she's dope and you guys are pretty confident people.
Soph:I would say that yeah, okay.
Nele:Okay, Now on to your toxicity.
Soph:I don't know what you're referring to.
Nele:I'm talking to you, so talking to you. No, leos Talking to me. Okay, toxicity, toxicity, Toxicity, all right. So, y'all can be arrogant sometimes. Yeah, you know, there's a fine line between, like like being prideful and proud of yourself and just being annoying. I'm not saying that's you not saying that, you at all, no, okay, the next one is self-centered I'm not, but I know leo's who are.
Nele:Yeah, I can see that, Not for you, but I can see that for some people. Subberness, I can be stubborn, yeah, stubborn. Need for validation. I do not need validation. Well, I think like, let's say, for instance, like Jennifer Lopez totally needs validation. This woman has made it thus far on marginal talent and you still want to get awards, sis, you lucky, you made it thus far right, oh my god. And still want validation from that melanin, deficient man who don't want you. He don't want you, sis, you are beautiful. You still look great. Who don't want her? Her and Ben Affleck think they're breaking up again Again. She wrote a whole documentary about their love story. She had a whole musical thing about, whole album about him and now they're breaking up.
Soph:She's like a weird pairing. It seems like one of those Hollywood pairings Like hey, you should date this guy.
Nele:I don't know. They're both Leos, so yeah, good luck with that. Domineering, they like to control and be bossy. Sometimes I can do that Impatience, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm and jealousy. Leos can be jealous, especially in relationships, and they don't like sharing the spotlight or attention and become envious if they feel overshadowed.
Soph:I can be jealous. Yeah, I'm not as jealous in relationships.
Nele:Well, y'all, that is it for you. Yo's, that wasn't that bad, no.
Soph:You came correct, all right Good. Why do you think of my hooves?
Nele:as a goat. Think about you and your paw lion. You're like a snack for me. Okay, Like I'll just take a bite. What I'm not a snack, I'm a pet.
Soph:But I'm a lion, right, you're like a snack for me, okay, like, I'll just take a bite.
Nele:What? I'm not a snack, I'm a pet. But I'm a lion right, you're a pet goat I don't have time for that, my hooves.
Soph:All right girl.
Nele:So that is it for Shady Astrology, and that is it for today's episode. We hope you laughed a little. We hope you laughed a little, we hope you cried a little bit in the state of the world and until next time. This is how it ends.
